A Keighley jeweller is donning his sequins and sparkles for a Strictly Come Dancing style charity contest in memory of his baby son. Liam McQuaid from Airedale Shopping Centre will strut his stuff alongside his wife Anna in a bid to be crowned the champion couple in the competition. The couple aim to raise vital […]
TV presenters Dan Snow and Huw Edwards have backed a £250,000 appeal to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Manchester-born David Lloyd George becoming Prime Minister. It comes as new, previously unseen photos of Lloyd George were revealed by his remaining family. The appeal was launched today by the Friends of the Lloyd George Museum, as […]
Twin boys who spent the first weeks of their life in hospital have become the 1,000th members of the Filbert Club at Keighley’s Airedale Shopping Centre. And as Tyler and Jake Webster’s mum Bethan mum picked up their membership cards, they met the club’s very first member, Carol Lund, along with the nutty squirrel himself, […]
A St Helens hairdresser has walked over hot coals to raise funds for charity in memory of her much-loved grandad. Leanne Burton, a stylist at Blow in Church Square Shopping Centre, took on the Stroke Association challenge – managing to cross the 1300F sizzling embers barefoot four times. The 23-year-old is raising funds for the […]
STAFF at Stretford Mall are getting ready to do their bit in a Christmas knit, to raise funds for charity this Friday. Team members at Bonmarché are among those who will be wearing festive knitwear and collecting donations from shoppers, on Text Santa Christmas Jumper Day, December 18. Sammer Qureshi, Bonmarché store manager at Stretford […]
A manager at Rochdale Exchange shopping centre has launched a bid to smash the world record for the longest ever roller hockey game, in a bid to raise £10,000 for a tot battling cancer after having two brain tumours removed. Mark Bleasdale, assistant guest services manager on behalf of the Rochdale Exchange, is masterminding a […]
A TEENAGE boy with a life-threatening brain tumour has achieved his dream of starring in a Christmas pop video, thanks to Stretford Mall. Ryan Drury, who is living with a 3cm wide tumour in his brain, plays the lead character in a Christmas single written and performed by pupils at Ashcroft School – with some […]
A Keighley gran will be using the power of chocolate to help raise funds to send her disabled nine-year-old granddaughter to the Czech Republic for pioneering surgery. Charlotte Wormald has severe cerebral palsy, following health problems when she was just days old – she and twin sister were born 14 weeks early, each weighing less […]
A CHARITY champion is urging shoppers help raise funds for a Macclesfield hospice by dropping in to see Santa at the Grosvenor Shopping Centre. Midge Barber was crowned the town’s Volunteer of the Year by local radio company Silk FM for her tireless efforts promoting and raising funds for the East Cheshire Hospice. The 70-year-old […]
SANTA’S grotto was officially launched at Rochdale Exchange, by the shopping centre’s Director of Fun, nine-year-old Sam Doherty. Families visiting the grotto will help raise funds for the Rochdale Moorland Children’s Home, which provides activity breaks for children from difficult backgrounds. Meanwood primary school pupil Sam cut the ribbon to officially welcome Father Christmas to […]
